Santa María de las Hoyas

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1999. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 2 wells and boreholes in Santa María de las Hoyas. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 45% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 33% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.3% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 56% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 49% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 96% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 570 mm a year (1971–2000), about 525 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 102 a year, about 73 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Nafría de Ucero · Fuentearmegil · Espeja de San Marcelino · San Leonardo de Yagüe · Hontoria del Pinar · Herrera de Soria · Casarejos